Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG) wrote:
> Nearly every implementation of <object> is broken, especially when it
> comes to handling cascading objects.
>
>Roberto:
>This is an user agent issue.
>
Which is precisely why we can't fix it in WCAG.
>Roberto:
>Flash accessibility is theory: we operate in real life, not in theory
>
Funny, but wrong. When we're dealing with screen reader users, 99% of
that market is on Windows, using IE or its ActiveX control. Neither
VoiceOver on OS X nor Gnopernicus on Linux has the user base or the
stability necessary to get accessibility hooks. (Though once they are
mature and stable enough, I would expect Macromedia/Adobe to provide
them.) And nearly all of those Windows users have the Flash player.
That's real life. Break their access to the Flash internals, and you
break accessibility to blind users.
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